Julia Ciccone is a specialist portrait artist based in St Ives Cornwall.

She paints beautiful portraits of both people and animals.

For animal portraits she works in oils and can work from good quality photos.

For portraits of people she works in oils or pencil - from a good quality photo/s, a sitting or both.

Julia can be commissioned for anniversaries, birthdays, Christmas and other special occasions (please give 3-4 months notice).

She also has a range of prints available - both open and limited editions.

This site features a selection of her work - see the galleries listed above.

Get in touch if you would like to commission a portrait of a favourite person or pet.

You can also buy her prints direct from this site.

You can visit her gallery in St Ives to see her working on her latest commissions.

You'll find Julia in Studio 7 at The Harbour Galleries on St Ives waterfront.

Bring your old family photographs back to life.

The painting on the right was based on the photograph on the far right. - provided by a client from their family archive.

Julia discussed details of the person's colouring e.g. colour of eyes, then produced the full sized colour painting from the black and white photograph.

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